试题库在线考试题库-历年真题模拟试题及答案-考博英语在线试题测试中心-希赛网

华东师范大学

The notes above were set down for a lecture in 1967, and I find myself now making a few changes to bring them up to date, none of much consequence.（1）I see the case now, there is one point these old notes seem to be driving（2）which never quite gets articulated but which（3）a lot for me these days. It seems（4）, in fact; and especially so perhaps in view of the present condition of American poetry. Far more than the reality of the scene, which I nonetheless highly prize, I would call（5）now to the absolute purity of style achieved in this little masterpiece, and effortlessly achieved, （6）to be equaled even by Williams. Other poems by Williams - certainly poems by other poets — are much richer（7）what they encompass;（8）vision is deeper and the character of the poet stands as a more affecting human presence. Often enough the language is more（9）. But this poem is perfectly said. Lean, streamlined; and there is（10）extra, no excrescence, no excess, no showing off; nor indeed any shortcoming whatever. We have（11）we see; we have it exactly Art can aspire higher and no doubt, at times, should. （12）not always. I think of Wang Wei: the Chinese effect in general, here（13）. I begin to understand how a critic like Winters can argue that the brief lyric may be greater than a complete tragedy, （14）lyric can hope for perfection, a(n) （15）wholeness and unity. One of Williams’ many admirers has written（16）“Between Walls” that since “there is no living thing in the poem - just a mockery of the color of growing plants - the feeling of the poem is ... sterile and airless.” But this opinion can only be the result of an absurd prejudice, probably got up out of some all（17）simple understanding of the organic and the natural. There is no mockery in this green: imitation, yes, and, one might（18）suggest, a certain pathos and bravery in the imitation. There is more to（19）than that, but there is, just glintingly, that. Meanwhile we do have also, thanking the muse of reality, pieces of a broken bottle, the real thing, as good as（20）green leaf here.

Faces, like fingerprints, are unique. Did you（1）wonder how it is possible for us to（2）people? Even a skilled writer probably could not describe all the（3）that make one face different from another. Yet a very young child—（4）an animal, such as a pigeon—can learn to recognize faces. We all（5）this ability for granted. We also tell people apart（6）how they behave. When we talk about someone’s personality, we mean （7）in which he or she acts, speaks, thinks, and feels that（8）that individual different from others. Like the human face, human personality is very complex. But describing someone’s personality（9）words is somewhat easier than（10）his face. If you were asked to describe what a “nice face” looked like, you（11）have a difficult time doing so. But if you were asked to describe a “nice person,” you（12）begin to think about someone who was kind, （13）, friendly, warm, and so forth. There are many words to describe （14）a person thinks, feels, and acts. Gordon Airport（15）U.S. psychologist, found nearly 18,000 English words（16）differences in people’s behavior. And many of us use this information as a（17）for describing or typing a（18）. Hippies, bookworm, （19）military types—people are described with such（20）.

Although too much（1）to the sun’s ultraviolet rays can cause skin cancer, sunshine may have a（2）effect against some cancers, U.S. scientists said in April. They（3）vitamin D, the so-called sunshine vitamin that is also found in fortified milk and（4）products, cod liver and some fatty fish, can help to slow down the speed（5）which cancer（6）divide. “This study found inverse（7） between both residential and occupational exposure to sunlight（8）mortality from female breast and colon cancers,” said Dr. Michael Freedman of the National Cancer（9）.In research（10）in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Freedman and his team studied（11）from breast, ovarian, colon, prostate and skin cancers in 24 U.S. states between 1984 and 1995 to determine the（12）of sunlight on the disease. （13）surprisingly, they found more deaths from skin cancer in sunnier（14）but the number of people who died from the other cancers was lower in the（15）areas. Working（16）in a sunny climate was also associated with（17）breast and colon cancer deaths but not（18）the other cancers. Freedman said more research is needed to（19）the association between sunlight and（20）cancers.

Earthquakes are nature’s crudest（1）on the poorest people who squat on the surface of the globe. The dreadful catastrophe in southwestern India will be（2）in the heart and（3）the conscience of the rest of the world for a long time（4）. There is no way of preventing the tremors (震动)within the Earth（5）cause its surface to（6）. And, for the time（7）, there is no sure way of predicting（8）. But, if earthquakes are（9）events, this is not true of the devastating（10）which have accompanied so many recent ones. The effect of a quake would be（11）inspection. But they are not, because earthquakes mainly happen in developing countries which cannot afford to（12）structures of the correct standard. In some earthquake-prone regions, like the Himalayas, deforestation(滥伐)has even robbed the inhabitants of the degree of natural（13） Most damage is（14）by the collapse of weak structures and the fires that（15）as a result. During the Egyptian earthquake of 1992 a large proportion of the（16）were killed by stamping when they panicked（17） something they didn’t understand. It has been estimated that nearly 200 of 561 killed would have（18） had they known what to do. In Tokyo, people often don’t take（19） notice of an earthquake because of the careful preparation and education（20）over years.

A number of books like Reading Faces and Body Language have（1）the individual's tendency to broadcast things through all manner of（2）movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, is mainly a primer in how to（3）others by a cold-blooded control of（4）signals that occur commonly in the workaday world: for example, how executives signal their style of power（5）the clothes they choose and the way they（6）heir office furniture.（7） work or play, everybody emits wordless signals of infinite variety. Overt, like a warm smile. Spontaneous, like a（8）eyebrow. Involuntary, like leaning away from a salesperson to（9）a deal. Says Julius Fast in Body Language. “We rub our noses for puzzlement. We（10）our arms to（11）ourselves or to protect ourselves. We（12）our shoulders for indifference.” Any competent psychiatrist remains alert to the expressions by which a patient's hidden emotions make（13）known. People even signal by the odors they（14）, as Janet Hopson（15）in superfluous detail in Scent Signals: The Silent Language of Sex. Actually, it is impossible for an individual to（16）signaling other people; the person who mutely（17） human intercourse sends out an unmistakable signal in the form of utter silence.Sociologist Dane Arche calls reading such signals “social intelligence.” He said, “We must unshackle ourselves from the tendency to ignore silent behavior and to prefer words（18）everything else.” The evidence all over is that（19）people wander the earth through thickets of verbiages, many, perhaps most, do pay more attention to wordless signals and are more likely to be influenced and（20）by nonverbal messages.

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